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  • Yeah, I'm no language purist, but most instances of "I could care less" are obviously the opposite of what they mean, and sadly, the phrase has already forged itself in the (American) English lexicon as the opposite of what it means by definition, much like "literally," "inflammable" and "irregardless."

    I recognize the lines we draw around such things are arbitrary, and I have no right to be angry about the above four any more than anyone has any right to be angry at me for not pronouncing the H in "who," "what," "when," "where," "why," etc.

    On the one hand I admire the French for writing down what officially constitutes "French," but I'm simultaneously irked at the fact that they eradicated the majority of dialects in their borders as an intentional direct result. Or is the unity they brought about worth it to crack those eggs?

    I'm sure I would say No if I was one of those eggs.

  • True, but isn't that true of the vast majority of people?

    Most of us yap a lot but don't actually do much, and those who do do things tend to yap first, right?

    If my card-carrying Democrat neighbor, for example, said "I support socialism" I wouldn't admonish them out of suspicion they don't intend to follow through because they haven't done anything concrete yet; I would say "Good on you! Welcome to the team! Here's what we can do together:"

  • I feel like virtually all of The Founding Fathers would have definitely moved to ban it except Ben Franklin, who would have vehemently opposed them.

    This kinda supports but also detracts from the implications that follow from the OOP:

    • The Founding Fathers would probably have largely agreed that such things should be banned.

    • Why should we fawn over all of the opinions of people two centuries dead? Surely they got some things right and some things wrong, yes?

  • Used to be cop.

    Went into a completely unrelated line of work purely because it was remote, promoted from there.

    Edit for the curious who want to know why I'm not a cop any more: https://lemmy.world/post/43267939

  • At a certain point of the continuum, someone's writing becomes too much of a pain in the behind to read and interpret their meaning.

    This one's over the line for me. Mark it zero.

  • Nice clickbait title!

  • Okay cool, it does look like I'll have to copy+paste and DM every admin on their list if I want to translate Reddit's Message the Moderators to Lemmy, but I only found that admin list thanks to your help; I was only able to find the moderator list before.

  • Yeah, I totally get that. I don't think you're understanding my question.

  • Yeah lemmy.world is pretty clear, but I was hoping for a general how-to because most instances are not, including the instance I'm looking for the information for.

    I'm moving from Reddit and trying to learn all the basics, and of course Reddit has the "Message the Moderators" button clearly visible on every subreddit.

  • Presumably she's said somewhere that she supports DSA or socialism (or else why would OP make this meme)?

    Is that not "the right thing?"

  • Because there's big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.

  • They were very obviously "shot" by AI and memory manufacturers.

    OP is not a very good detective. They'd walk up on a scene and determine that five shots to the back of the head must have been suicide.

  • Funny meme, but I welcome people leaving their echo chambers.

  • Right, I covered that in my last paragraph.

    Calls for violence are against their ToS. Shocker!

  • The American left needs to fall out of love with cannibalism.

    I don't care why Harris wants to do the right thing now.

    Allow people to save face and change their positions - attacking them for "flip flops" is to say "No reasonable adult should ever change their mind about anything" which is not only bananas, but discourages people from doing critical thinking because they'd face humiliation for reversing course.

  • Barely related whataboutism, but okay.

  • Not to mention physical courage.

  • Aren't you supposed to wait for something to be widely adopted before you enshittify it?

    I get long-term enshittification in pursuit of short term Line Must Go Up but I feel like this would significantly impede it even in the short term.

    Kinda reeks of Meta being in financial trouble.